arXiv:2607.06987cs.LG2026-07

提出UP优化方法,破解强化学习中探索与稳定难题

UP: Unbounded Positive Asymmetric Optimization for Breaking the Exploration-Stability Dilemma

  • 用非对称无界优化,让正向奖励自由更新以增强探索
  • 在多种模型和任务上显著提升推理准确率,最高达12.3%提升
  • 可直接接入现有框架,适配语言与多模态场景

强化学习已成为提升大语言模型复杂推理能力的标准范式。为实现样本高效,现代强化学习框架依赖重要性采样(IS),但此类算法面临探索-稳定性困境:纯IS易引发训练崩溃,而常规截断机制又严格限制策略更新预算。通过形式化定义‘概率容量’(Cap),我们发现保守截断会提前终止高正确但低置信度推理路径的更新,抑制探索。为此,提出通用且即插即用的无界正向不对称优化(UP)目标。UP通过停止梯度操作将策略锚定于当前状态,不对称地释放正向优势的无截断稳定梯度以促进探索,同时对负向优势保留标准截断以防止不稳定。该设计可灵活扩展至不同粒度优化,包括词元级(GRPO、DAPO)和序列级(GSPO)框架。大量实验表明,UP显著增强探索能力,在多种强化学习算法(DAPO、GSPO、GRPO)、模型架构(密集型、MoE、视觉语言)及训练模式(语言与多模态)下均取得更优推理准确率,验证了其作为强化学习训练通用增强模块的普适性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the standard paradigm for enhancing the complex reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). To achieve sample efficiency, modern RL frameworks rely on importance sampling (IS). However, these algorithms suffer from an exploration-stability dilemma. Pure IS often leads to catastrophic training instability, while standard clipping mechanisms used to mitigate this instability strictly constrain the policy update budget. By formalizing the concept of Probability Capacity (Cap), we reveal that conservative clipping structurally stifles exploration by prematurely truncating the update budget for correct but low-confidence reasoning paths. To break free from these constraints, we propose Unbounded Positive Asymmetric Optimization (UP), a universal and plug-and-play objective. UP theoretically restructures the optimization process by anchoring the policy to its current state via the stop-gradient operator. This asymmetric design unleashes unclipped, stable gradients for positive advantages to maximize exploration, while maintaining standard clipping safeguards for negative advantages to prevent training instability. Furthermore, our formulation readily extends across different optimization granularities, including token-level (GRPO, DAPO) and sequence-level (GSPO) frameworks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UP enhances exploration capacity and achieves superior reasoning accuracy across diverse RL algorithms (DAPO, GSPO, and GRPO), model architectures (Dense, MoE, and vision-language), and training modalities (language and multimodal), validating UP as a truly universal plug-and-play enhancement for RL-based training.

强化学习大模型推理优化方法

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。